Irakli Khvedelidze (b. July 1, 1984, Tbilisi) is a Doctor of Philology. He received his BA (2005) and MA (2007) in Philology and defended his PhD dissertation Narratological Foundations of the Autobiographical Genre (Based on the Autobiographical Texts of Akaki Tsereteli and Mariam Jambakur-Orbeliani) at Tbilisi State University in 2020.
He was a two-time DAAD scholarship holder in the program Partnerships with Universities in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe as well as in the CIS countries (2010–2011). He led a winning doctoral education project funded by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation (2015–2016). He was also a grantee of the joint research program Georgian Studies supported by the Rustaveli Foundation and European universities, serving as a visiting researcher at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2019–2020).
Irakli Khvedelidze has been awarded further DAAD–Rustaveli fellowships as a visiting researcher at the Technical University of Darmstadt (2021) and at the Center for Digital Humanities, Trier University (2024). Since 2022, he has been a lecturer in the Comparative Literature and Textology Master’s program at Tbilisi State University and, since 2023, Head of the Digital Laboratory of Literature at the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature.